(Special to The Root) — New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg recently made a disturbing revelation about the New York City Police Department’s policy of stopping pedestrians and forcibly searching ...

NEW YORK — In a manila envelope on the table in front of Marlene Steele are hundreds of letters from businesses, churches and foundations politely rejecting her request for help to fund a gun buy-back ...

In the late 1980s, the United States experienced an unprecedented spike in violent crime. Alarmed voters demanded action. Elected officials responded. One of those responses was stop-and-frisk ...

"I just got stopped like two blocks ago," said a frustrated Harlem teenager to the two police officers who approached him. This is the first recorded audio of a New York City "stop and frisk" recorded ...

The New York City police department is lax in punishing officers who illegally stop and frisk people on the street, undermining efforts to curb wrongful uses of the tactic than a judge declared ...

In his post about the New York Police Department’s controversial stop-and-frisk policy, Matthew McKnight writes, “The relationship between law enforcement and communities that the N.Y.P.D. has ...

WASHINGTON — Racial disparities in DC Police's stop and frisk program haven't improved since they began publishing data last year. According to a WUSA9 analysis of the latest data, black people are ...

The two Newark cops, Big Cat and Gesuelli, pulled up in their battered sedan and went to do some frisking in the courtyard of the old-age home. They stepped fast across the dark, almost empty quad, ...

In the summer of 2013, as he sought to cement his legacy as a three-term mayor of New York, Mike Bloomberg faced a pair of threats to his signature — and highly divisive — crime-fighting policy, known ...

A federal court is set to decide on the lawfulness of stop-and-frisk, New York City's polarizing policing strategy meant to stop gun violence. The policy gives police officers wide discretion to stop, ...

Former New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg consistently credited his administration’s controversial stop-and-frisk program as essential to cutting crime, but declines in felonies both before and after ...

A recording from 2015 might make it even harder for some voters to reconcile the tension between Michael Bloomberg’s past and his attempts to illustrate his interest in confronting racial inequality ...